Knowledge & understanding:

Upon successful completion students will be able to:
- Improve intuition and understanding of renewable and sustainable energy systems such as wind, hydro, solar, fuel cells and nuclear reactors;
- Gain insight into the application basic science and engineering fundamentals to analyze renewable and sustainable energy systems;
- Improve understanding of thermodynamic laws, energy transport mechanisms, radiation and climate change.

Intellectual (thinking) skills: application:

Students will be able to:

-Identify issues facing the renewable energy industry and climate change
-Analyse wind speed data and wind turbine performance in a given wind regime
-Identify the various components of a wind turbine and their functions and types
-Identify planning and environmental issues related to wind power systems
-Describe main features and operation of solar hot water systems and photovoltaic systems
-Describe main features and opeation of nuclear power reactors
-Understand risks of radiation
-Describe main features and operation of hydrogen fuel cells

Practical skills
Students will be able to
- Identify reasonable assumptions and conduct simple analysis of energy systems
- Undertake problem identification, formulation and solution
- Identify issues facing the renewable energy industry

Transferable Skills
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
-Work with others on solution strategies but solve the actual problem on their own thorough homework assignments.
-Understand and communicate professional and ethical responsibilities